Fractional Sales Manager + Team

A senior sales manager for your team. Without the full-time hire.

Your sales team isn't short on people. It's short on someone senior running them. Bruce leads a weekly session with your reps himself. His Customer Success Partner works with them in between. 10 clients per CSP so Bruce keeps oversight on all of it. No contract, stop any month.

$110M+ in lifetime sales 15 years leading sales teams Works with US, Canadian and European teams
$110M+Lifetime sales generated
9Industries worked
4Countries
15Years leading sales
In the room, on the stage, on the move

Bruce has trained thousands of salespeople across industries, countries and companies.

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Sound familiar?

You've got a sales team. But nobody is running them.

You're still on every big deal

Your team pulls you into every pitch. The business you should be building keeps slipping down the list.

Nobody is coaching the team

The same objections kill the same deals week after week, and nobody is working with your reps to fix it.

Next month is a guess

You can't see what's coming in the pipeline. Which means you can't plan hires, cash, or growth with any confidence.

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Why owners pick fractional over full-time

Full-time sales manager hireBruce + the GoStartr team
When they startThree to six months of hiringNext month
Track record you can verifyResume and interview. You take a chance.15 years of named results you can check
What they bring inThemselves. You build the rest.Senior lead plus a trained delivery team
If the fit is wrongSeverance, replace, lose the yearMonth to month. No lock-in. Walk any time.
How it works

What the first 90 days look like

Bruce works in your time zone. The daily rhythm with your reps runs through his dedicated Customer Success Partner.

Bruce reviewing sales data Month 1

We find where you're losing deals

Week one, Bruce listens to your sales calls, meets every rep and walks the open pipeline with you. By week two you have a plain-English report naming exactly what is costing you deals and what to fix first. No 40-page deck.

Bruce training a sales team Month 2

We rebuild how your team sells

We rewrite the process, scripts and objection handling using the calls that actually closed last quarter, not theory. By month end your reps are running a system they can win with.

Bruce running a team session Month 3 and on

You get your Fridays back

By now the weekly routine is running on its own. Every rep gets a 1:1 each week, we review the full pipeline together on your scheduled day, and a short honest report hits your inbox before Monday morning. You stop being the bottleneck on every deal.

Track record

Everything Bruce teaches your team, he's done himself.

Every number below came from a sales function Bruce either ran or rebuilt. No theory, no case study he read in a book.

13.8x in four months
Evora Health

Bruce built the sales and ordering system for this health products distributor. Monthly channel revenue grew from $4.3k in May to $60k+, with no added headcount. 39 resellers order through the platform. 91% re-order.

$4.3k
$21k
$38k
$60k+
MayJunJulAug
Zero misses in 2 months

A high-ticket US client. 3-rep remote sales team. After Bruce's 8-week playbook, close rate nearly doubled (5% to 9.5%) and every rep has hit monthly target for 2 consecutive months.

7x more sales
BTS Electrical

Bruce grew annual revenue from $780k to $5.5M over 7 years as head of sales. 15 years leading sales teams across 9 industries.

$111k in 3 months
Concept Labs

Running sales for an AI automation agency, Bruce closed $111k in new business across the last 3 months. Enterprise contracts, mixed industries.

#1 in the country
Alpha CBD

Built from zero to the number one CBD brand in South Africa over 6 years. Direct-to-consumer and retail channels, built the sales function and the customer base from scratch.

27 to 40,000+ members
Tech company (NDA)

Grew the member base from 27 to over 40,000 by pivoting into a different segment of the same market. The product didn't change. The market we sold it to did.

$220k in 60 days
Merchant Finance

$220k in closed deals in the first 60 days of the engagement, with a $1.2M qualified pipeline built in parallel.

$720k closed, $4.7M pipeline
Solar company

$720k in deals closed with a $4.7M qualified pipeline running behind it.

$6.7M over 3 years
Smart meter company

Secured long-term supply deals with two municipalities, worth $6.7M in sales over 3 years.

$500k/month recurring
Yenzani Maintenance

Landed a cable supply contract worth $500k per month in recurring revenue. One contract, one line item, every month.

$1.4M closed, $5.6M pipeline
FM Solar

12 months running solar sales: $1.4M in closed deals and a $5.6M pipeline. Direct contact with Zambia's power authority and a quote submitted on Namibia's 100MW solar plant.

50+ businesses to first sales
Over 5 years

Over the last 5 years, Bruce has helped take more than 50 businesses from zero to their first paying customers.

Who you get

Meet Bruce Steyn

Bruce Steyn, fractional sales manager and external sales leader

The first build took him 7 years. The latest took 4 months.

Bruce started on the floor at BTS Electrical and took the business from $780k to $5.5M. That first build took him 7 years. He's since built the same sales function across cable, CBD, solar, SaaS, utilities and finance. Nine industries. Four countries. Same framework every time. Each time he strips something out.

7 years. Then 3. Then 2 years 4 months. Then 18 months. Now 4 months.

GoStartr caps at 10 clients per Customer Success Partner so Bruce keeps real oversight of every client and every CSP under him.

Price

Three ways to work with Bruce

US dollars, month to month, no contract.

Sales Coach

For teams that have good reps but need sharper execution and weekly accountability.
$2,997/month
Includes the audit. Month to month, no contract.
  • Dedicated Customer Success Partner on your account
  • Weekly team coaching led by your CSP, overseen by Bruce
  • Every recorded sales call reviewed with written feedback inside 48 hours
  • A sales process your team can actually follow
  • Monthly working session with Bruce
  • AI call scoring on every recorded call
  • AI script tuning reviewed with Bruce each week
  • AI coaching briefs ready before every session
Onboarding Bonuses
  • Discovery Mastery Training
  • Script Audit & Rewrite
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Most owners pick this

External Sales Manager

For owners who want senior sales leadership running the team, so they can go back to running the business.
$4,997/month
Includes the audit. Month to month, no contract.
  • Dedicated CSP on your account, plus direct Bruce access on WhatsApp
  • Weekly 1:1 coaching for every salesperson on your team
  • Every deal in your pipeline reviewed every Friday
  • Weekly honest report to you on the numbers, no spin
  • Help you hire, interview and train new reps
  • Sales process rebuilt and documented
  • Outbound templates and scripts tuned for your market
  • Weekly KPIs set and reviewed with every rep
  • AI pipeline health scoring refreshed daily
  • AI meeting prep briefs ready before every booked call
  • AI follow-up sequences drafted per prospect
Onboarding Bonuses
  • Discovery Mastery Training
  • Script Audit & Rewrite
  • LAAIC Objection Handling Training
  • Script Comfort Training
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External Sales Director + Team

For owners who want a full sales operation plugged in: senior leadership, daily coaching, and our outbound team dialing into your market.
$9,997/month
Includes the audit. Month to month, no contract.
  • Everything in External Sales Manager
  • Dedicated outbound team working your market: 2 call agents + 1 CSP
  • 400+ outbound dials per week into your defined target market
  • Qualified prospects booked straight into your closers' calendars
  • Full sales operation: process, campaigns, outbound, scripts, pipeline, coaching, KPIs
  • Daily huddle with your lead CSP
  • Twice-weekly working sessions with Bruce
  • Abby AI dialer running where your territory allows
  • AI inbound response in under 60 seconds on every new lead
  • AI reactivation engine working your dormant lead database
  • AI reporting dashboard refreshed hourly
Onboarding Bonuses
  • Discovery Mastery Training
  • Script Audit & Rewrite
  • LAAIC Objection Handling Training
  • Script Comfort Training
  • Onboarding Process Audit
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Want a diagnostic first? Start with the Sales Process Audit.

Two weeks. Bruce goes through your sales calls, sits with each rep, walks every open deal. You get a 90-day plan with exactly what to fix and in what order. $1,997, one-time.

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Questions

Straight answers

What exactly is a fractional sales manager? +

A senior sales leader who runs part of your sales function on a monthly retainer instead of landing on your payroll full-time. You get a senior sales leader plus the weekly routine around them, without the two-year hiring risk or HR overhead. Bruce comes with a trained Customer Success Partner on your account from day one.

Who is this really for? +

Owners of businesses that have a sales team already and know it should be producing more. You don't have time to run the team yourself and nobody senior is holding your reps to a number each week. If you've been meaning to hire a sales manager for 12 months and nothing's landed, this is for you.

Why not just hire a full-time sales manager? +

You can. It takes months to find the right person. You carry the hiring risk. If the fit is wrong you lose the year and start over. A fractional sales manager starts next month, has a track record you can verify in advance, and runs month to month. If you decide later you want someone in-house, Bruce helps you hire and train them.

Which plan should I pick? +

Not sure what's broken yet, start with the Audit. Team is reasonably trained but needs sharper execution and someone keeping them honest, pick Sales Coach. Nobody is running the team day to day, pick External Sales Manager. Want our outbound crew dialing your market and booking qualified meetings into your closers' calendars too, pick External Sales Director + Team.

How many people work on my account? +

At Sales Coach and External Sales Manager, a dedicated Customer Success Partner from our team with Bruce as the strategic lead on top. At External Sales Director + Team, your CSP is joined by 2 of our call agents dialing your market. Bruce personally leads every account.

Am I locked in? +

No. Month to month from day one. If it's not working you walk with no severance. We earn the next month every month.

Bruce lives in South Africa. How does that work? +

He works in your business hours on calls with your team. He already does this for a US client in their time zone and has worked with teams across the US, Canada and Europe.

Do we need new software? +

No. Bruce works inside the tools you already have. The AI layer sits on top of your CRM, not instead of it.

Do you sell on our behalf? +

No. Your closers still close every deal. We run the function around them. At External Sales Director + Team, our outbound agents dial your market and book qualified prospects into your closers' calendars, but your team still owns the close.

Do you promise more sales? +

What we promise is the work itself: a clear process, weekly coaching for every rep, and one honest report. Sales also depend on your product and market, so we won't promise a number we can't control. If the audit shows we can't help you, we'll say so on the discovery call.

From the blog

How the sales function should actually run

Short, honest pieces on where sales teams leak revenue and how to plug it.

Stop managing the sales team yourself.

Talk to Bruce for 20 minutes. You'll find out where you're losing sales, even if you never hire us.

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